Bob Corker: know that today is a pretty monumental day as it relates to the start treaty that we have been discussing for some time, and tomorrow will be a big day in that regard, too, and there is nothing that i think most of us care about more than our country being secure. i've got two daughters that are 21 and 23, a wonderful wife, extended family like every

Bob Corker: member in this room, and there is nothing that i take more seriously than making sure that our country is secure. and so as a member of the foreign relations committee when we entered into discussions regarding the start treaty, i attended 11 of the 12 hearings. i have been in multiple classified meetings. i have spoken with military

Bob Corker: leaders across our country. i have been in so many intelligence briefings, i have begun to speak like an intelligence officer. so, mr. president, i have taken this responsibility very, very seriously. i want to say that there are numbers of people that obviously are still making up their mind regarding this treaty, and

Bob Corker: that's why i came to the floor. one of the things that we do when we end up ratifying a treaty is we have something called a resolution of ratification, and no doubt this treaty was negotiated by the president and his team, the secretary of state and others who work with secretary clinton,

Bob Corker: and no doubt that is done by people on the other side of the aisle. but what i'd like to bring people's attention to today is this: whenever we ratify a treaty, we do so, we do so through something called a resolution of ratification, and for those who might not have